Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro warned Navy personnel against engaging in political activity just a day before he was found to have violated federal law by voicing his support for President Joe Biden over other potential candidates, The Daily Wire has learned.

Del Toro’s support of Biden was found to have “crossed a legal line” in violation of the Hatch Act, a federal law that bars federal employees from engaging in political activities while participating in work duties, during a taxpayer-funded trip to the United Kingdom in January, the Office of the Special Counsel said this week.

Just one day before it was revealed that Del Toro violated the law, he sent out an unclassified document to Navy personnel, personally warning them against engaging in political activity. The guidance sent out to Navy sailors, obtained by The Daily Wire, is titled “Guidance on Political Activities of DON Personnel,” and includes a warning to personnel from Del Toro himself.

“Now that the 2024 election season is upon us, it is more important than ever for us to remember that the DON is an apolitical body and our members cannot participate in activities that could appear to imply sponsorship, approval, or endorsement of a political candidate, campaign, or cause,” a quote from Del Toro reads. “Public trust and confidence depend on this.”

When he sent the guidance, Del Toro was just one day away from being cited for engaging in partisan activity himself.

“When speaking in his official capacity on a taxpayer-funded trip, Secretary Del Toro encouraged electoral support for one candidate over another in the upcoming presidential election,” Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger noted this week. “By doing so, he crossed a legal line and violated the Hatch Act.”

“Rules for thee but not for me is the unofficial slogan of the woke Biden-Harris DOD. Secretary Del Toro is correct that ‘public trust and confidence’ depend on an apolitical military,” Rep. Jim Banks, Chairman of the Anti-Woke Caucus, told The Daily Wire. “That’s why trust in our military has dropped to an all-time low under Kamala Harris and Joe Biden.”

The Office of Special Counsel explained that Del Toro violated the Hatch Act while partaking in interviews while on the trip.

“I’m confident that the American people will step up to the plate come November and support President Biden for a second term as our Commander-in-Chief, so that we can continue to work together as free democratic countries respect each other around the globe,” Del Toro said in response to one interview question.

“Secretary Del Toro’s statements with overt reference to the election conveyed electoral support for one candidate and opposition to another candidate, and thus, constituted political activity,” the Office of Special Counsel report explains. 

The Biden-Harris administration has consistently worked to embed their ideology throughout the military and our national security institutions, namely through the implementation of leftwing diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, as a series of investigations from The Daily Wire has revealed.

Former President Donald Trump said on Friday that the sentencing in his hush-money case is being moved to after the election because he “did nothing wrong.”

Judge Juan Merchan postponed the sentencing in the Manhattan case on Friday for the second time, pushing the date back from September 18 to November 26, exactly three weeks after the presidential election. In a Truth Social post, Trump argued that Merchan delayed the sentencing “because everyone realizes that there was NO CASE, I DID NOTHING WRONG!”

“It is a political attack against me by Comrade Kamala Harris and other Radical Left Opponents for purposes of Election Interference, and is a case that should have never been brought,” he wrote. “Nothing like this has ever happened in the United States of America – IT IS STRICTLY THIRD WORLD, BANANA REPUBLIC ‘STUFF.'”

Trump was convicted in late May on all 34 counts of falsifying business records brought against him after he was accused of covering up hush-money payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels, which date back to the 2016 election campaign.

Merchan said that he was delaying the sentencing “to avoid any appearance — however unwarranted — that the proceeding has been affected by or seeks to affect the approaching presidential election in which the Defendant is a candidate.” Trump and his allies have alleged that the hush-money case brought against him by Manhattan Democratic District Attorney Alvin Bragg is a ploy to stop the Republican nominee from winning another term in the White House.

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Merchan shot back at those allegations with his order on Friday, arguing, “The Court is a fair, impartial, and apolitical institution,” adding that his decision “should dispel any suggestion that the Court will have issued any decision or imposed sentence either to give an advantage to, or to create a disadvantage for, any political party and or any candidate for any office.”

In his Truth Social post, Trump added that the American public and “every legal scholar” “understands” that the Manhattan case is “election interference.” He argued that the case should ultimately be “terminated.”

Legal experts have said that the Supreme Court could ultimately step in. Trump’s attempt to get the case moved to a federal court before the sentencing was shot down by U.S. District Court Judge Alvin Hellerstein, writing that the federal court “does not have jurisdiction to hear Mr. Trump’s arguments concerning the propriety of the New York trial.”